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Aug. 19, 1941. F. E. JOHNS-ON TOY Mill/gm Filed Nov. 26, 1940 INVENTO Franc/5 f. Job/2:017.

ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 19, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE T-OY Francis E. Johnson, Mount Vernon, N. Y.

Application November 26, 1940, Serial No. 367,167

4 Claims.

This invention relates to a toy convertible to be used either as a jump rope or as a lariat.

It is an object of this invention to provide a device of the character described which may be employed as a jump rope and when so employed will be efficient and without interference by any feature relating to its convertibility and which, moreover, may be adjusted to different lengths to accommodate itself to children of different sizes.

It is a further object to provide a device which may be easily converted into a lariat and when so converted may be spun or otherwise used as is commonly known in exhibition rope work.

Since certain changes may be made in the above construction and different embodiments of the invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the following claims are intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Fig. 1 is a plan view of the device when arranged to be used as a jump rope.

Fig. 2 is a corresponding View of the same rope when ready to be used as a lariat.

Figs. 3 and 4 are details of the handles II and 25 respectively. As will be seen from the drawing, the device consists primarily of a handle I l to which is permanently connected, as seen in Fig. 3, one end of a rope I2. I prefer to make this connection by a swivel. This may be done by conveniently boring through the handle from the lower end a hole substantially equal to the diameter of the rope as seen at l3 and boring through from the upper end with a larger diameter as shown at 14 to provide a shoulder 15 to receive a washer element of any convenient kind designated by numeral l6 which may rest flat against the shoulder IE but may rotate in the handle.

The other end of the rope I2 is provided with a bight 20 adapted to embrace the body of the rope to form a. loop 2!. This bight may be formed in any convenient manner, as for example by a metal clamp 22. The rope i thus described as illustrated in Fig. 2 and by grasping the handle II, the loop 2| may be spun around to form a circle and the operator may jump into and out of this circle as is customarily done in roping exhibitions.

The bight 20 may be made either tight or loose upon the rope, depending upon the degree of skill of the operator for whom it is intendeda loose bight making possible a greater exhibi tion of skill but at the same time being harder to handle.

A second handle 25 ha connected thereto an eye 26, as shown in Fig. 3; this may also be swivelled as previously described; except for the fact that it is the shank 21 of the eye 26 which extends upwardly through the smaller bore l3 of the handle instead of the rope as previously described.

This eye 26 is of such size that the doubled loop may pass through it and then slip over the handle 25 to form the construction shown in Fig. 1. In this manner the device is converted into a jump rope and swiveled to both handles at the same time. It will also be clear that by reason of the fact that the bight in the rope l2 which passes through the eye 26 may be taken at any point desired along the rope that the length of the jump rope may be adjusted at will.

I prefer, however, to paint or otherwise mark a section of the rope to indicate where the most desirable'fold is to be placed for the average child and this painted portion will serve as a guide also to children of other heights since any change from the painted portion may be readily estimated and the point of contact between the loop and the eye determined.

Since certain changes may be made in the above construction and different embodiments of the invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the following claims are intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. A device of the character described comprising in combination a rope having a running noose therein, a handle for the unnoosed end of said rope and a second handle having means for engaging an intermediate portion of said noose.

2. A jump rope comprising a rope, a handle swiveled to one end of said rope, a bight on the other end of said rope for embracing the intermeans of attachment comprising an eye swiveled to said other handle and of such size that the doubled rope may be passed through it.

4. A jump rope comprising a rope, a handle swiveled to one end of said rope, a bight on the other end of said rope adapted to embrace an intermediate portion thereof to form a loop and a second handle having means to detachably engage the said other end, whereby the said rope will be connected to both handles to form a jump rope or may be detached from said second handle and used as a loop rope.

"FRANCIS E. JOHNSON. 

